If you’re positive you know to stay home and if you’re higher risk you can be prescribed paxlovid.

It’s only thomas though

According to this chart, this is the first time I have ever bought the dip. Until the dip is redefined that is.

I don’t think there’s much housing in New England. Certainly not enough has been built to handle population growth in MA; eastern Mass has added over a million residents in the past 20 years but almost no new housing in that same time period.

Ok but that's the other end of the spectrum. What I'm saying is there is so much fucking housing but it's all owned by billionaire real estate trusts.

If this is the first time you've refilled it in the new year it's possible that your insurance coverage changed slightly with regard to prescriptions.

I know! And that’s honestly what confused me the most, where the regular went up, but only by like $1, and the XR went up by like $30, I’m like this makes NO SENSE lol

Can't hurt to ask! I can't believe how expensive it is now.

They should develop a community and have a little train that goes around and brings people to the store!

Then, in MBTA style, it can fall off the tracks, break down, and start on fire sometimes to foster community spirit. :)

Yeah, I've seen the prices are much more fair and reasonable and within our range...we can get a lot more for our money from Attleboro/North Attleboro...but my girlfriend is committed to Mansfield because she doesn't want to take her daughter (8 years old) out of Mansfield school system and away from her friends :/ tricky situation but maybe she will see its worth the brief growing pains

High density isn’t “shithole.” High density is highly desirable. Sprawling McMansions in car-dependent strip-mall suburbs are often the real shitholes.

While inflation plays a small part of this, about 25%, the real driver of this is:

1. Everyone wants to live in Massachusetts (because its awesome)
2. The people who are here and OWN their land don't want to build new housing, anywhere. There are no towns that I am aware of who want TONS of new buildings and high-rises.

So, the limited housing becomes an auction. Highest bidder wins. The people who are buying have lots of money. This state is attracting rich people, typically highly educated in lucrative professions. And those people who bought something don't really want the prices to drop. They just made a big investment, and rising prices help them. Further, just building a ton of new buildings will just make traffic worse.

There is no solution. Conceivably the legislature could force more construction on local towns, but that won't work for long because homeowners all over the state don't want more construction in their towns. "Small towns are part of the charm of Massachusetts!" People who own, and have fixed mortgages WANT the prices to go up.

It sucks, its not getting worse. And its all mostly because Massachusetts is great: great education, great healthcare, great environment... For those who have a house, they don't care about the people who say "but I cannot afford to live here!" that's someone else's problem.

It only really becomes a home owner's problem when they cannot afford someone to provide cheap services for them.

But........ but Fox News said..........

So that’s the weird thing! I have blue cross and the tier didn’t change, but I am considering asking my Dr if I can take more of the regular ones, and forgo the 20 altogether once the shortage is straightened out cause that would be cheaper for me as well.

For Adderall too? I had asked the pharmacy and they told me I couldn’t use a coupon instead of insurance on this because it’s a “controlled substance” and you can only use one or the other 🙄

As far as I know I don’t have a separate deductible for prescriptions, I just have my out of pocket maximum to meet but then I wouldn’t have to pay for any services/copays/etc.

I know this one! A few years ago they moved several XR dosages to a higher price tier as a "non essential" form, for Tufts Health insurance. My Rx went from 12? bucks to 75! Now I take regular Adderall every 4 hours instead. No shortages, inexpensive. The only downside is if you forget to take it.

I think it’s a supply thing as far as pharmacies not having them, it’s been like that since September/October for the regular release adderall. For the price though thats a Blue Cross thing, but no one can tell me why the price increased for me.

On Rantoul st you have: the Flats at 131, link 480, Beverly crossing, station 101, Holmes Beverly, canvas apartments, enterprise apartments, and Sedna all built within 1000 yards of each other in the last 10 years, half of them within the last 3. In 2019 I lived in a 1 BR for $1300. They now rent that same unit out for $2000. Every single one of those buildings have vacancy, just check their websites.

In 2015 (before any of these went up) average rent for a 2br was $1250 a month. As of right now a 2 br is around $2800 a month.

https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/beverly-ma

You absolutely can use the coupons, I use Gilead's program for Discovy and GoodRx for another drug that's generic.

It can easily go down too. It goes both ways. Very risky

Here come another crash…

I thank you for the compliment and I am happy that the drawing brought you good memories with your grandmother!

thank you so much!

Check North Attleboro/Attleboro. I wanted Mansfield, Foxborough, Easton when looking in 2020 but Attleboro was the winner on prices 😅 brand new high school, a lot of new sidewalks being put in for accessibility, etc.